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Dr. N. Narayanan Nair was born in a wealthy family in 1929 at Koliyakode, a rural village near Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram District. His family name is Kannankara. His father is Neelakanda Pillai, who was an agriculturist, who owned paddy fields. His mother’s name is Lekshmi Kutty Amma. He completed his primary education upto Class 3 in the Koliyakode primary aided school and later upto Class 7 at Venjaramoodu Government School. He completed his II and III Forum at the Nedumangad English Medium Government School and completed IV, V and VI Forums in the Pattom SSM High School and successfully completed E.S.S.L.C. He completed the Intermediate Course from the University College, Thiruvananthapuram. Thereafter he completed B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics also from the University College, Thiruvananthapuram. From there he joined Government Law College, Ernakulam and passed LL.B. in the year 1953 and enrolled as Advocate in the year 1954. He started his legal practice as Junior to Late Advocate Krishnaswamy Iyyangar (who is the father of Justice Paripoornan). Dr. Narayanan Nair started his practice along with Pallipuram P. Sukumaran Nair, who later became a Senior Advocate of the High Court of Kerala. Dr. Narayanan Nair completed his LL. M. in the year 1955 with first rank from the Kerala University and he obtained his Ph. D. in Law from the Kerala University in 1968 which was the first Ph. D. in law awarded by the Kerala University. Dr. Narayanan Nair joined the Communist Party of India in the year 1953 and was elected to its District Council in 1959 and to the Trivandrum District Executive Committee of the undivided Communist Party in 1961 and continued so till the split of the Communist Party in 1964. After the split he continued in CPI and was a member of the State Council of the CPI from 1964. He had also worked as the Trivandrum City Secretary of the undivided Communist Party. During this period, he got appointment as a permanent lecturer at the Government Law College, Trivandrum. During this period he had worked as Election Committee Secretary in the Legislative Assembly election in one of the legislative assemblies in Kerala. For this reason he was terminated from service from the Government Law College, Trivandrum which was within one year of his appointment. He challenged his termination before the High Court of Kerala and the High Court decided in his favour by striking down his termination. But he did not rejoin the Law College as Lecturer. After the split of the Communist Party, he had also worked as Assistant Secretary of the Trivandrum District Committee of the Communist Party of India. He had also worked as the Secretary of the Indo-Soviet Council and State Secretary of Peace Council formed for bettering relationship between India and Soviet Union He had travelled to Russia, Europe, U.S.A and many East Asian Countries.

The Kerala Law Academy was formed in 1966 by Dr. Narayanan Nair along with Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, Justice Subramanian Potti, former Education Minister K. Chandrasekharan, K. Ayyappan Pillai and others. Kerala Law Academy Law College was started in the year 1967. Dr. Narayanan Nair was the Founder Secretary of Kerala Law Academy. Justice P. Govinda Menon was the first Principal and Director of the Kerala Law Academy Law College. Kerala Law Academy started a research Centre at Punnen Road, Trivandrum, near Government Secretariat, in the year 1974 and the said research institute had produced several Ph.Ds. Dr. Narayanan Nair was elected to the Kerala University Syndicate 5 times. He is a member of the Kerala University Syndicate for a period of about 22 years, which is the longest period a person is holding the post of member of the Syndicate of the University of Kerala. Similarly, he has been member of the Senate of the University of Kerala since 1963, viz. he has been a Senate Member of the Kerala University continuously without a break for the past 45 years, which is a record period for which a person has been a member of Senate of the Kerala University. He was in active legal practice for more than a decade and he had worked as Principal of the Kerala Law Academy Law College. Presently he is the director of the Kerala Law Academy Law College and the Research Centre of the Kerala Law Academy. He is presently the Secretary of the Kerala Law Academy. He has been a member of the Academic Council and Board of Studies of several universities and has been a question paper setter for the Union Public service Commission Examinations.

He is also a member of the Bar Council of Kerala continuously since 1990 and has been serving as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bar Council of Kerala for the past 15 years and has been instrumental in establishing the NUALS, Kochi. He has served as Vice-Chancellor of NUALS for a period of one and a half years.He married to Ponnamma, a former IAAS officer.He has three children- Raj Narayan, Dr. Lekshmi Nair and Nagaraj Narayanan